Members of the Mobjack Rowing Associations youth fall rowing program competed Sunday in the 29th annual Head of the Lafayette regatta in Norfolk. Launching from Lakewood Park, the competitors rowed out of the northeast branch of the Lafayette River to the Granby Street Bridge. The 5,000-meter course starts through the northwest branch arch, winds 2,500 meters up, and then U-turns back to finish through the arches on the opposite end. This year’s fall team is composed of five homeschooled students and four from Mathews High School; two team members had racing experience and the rest were novices—in their first competition. Varsity rower Will Lang started the day’s racing, coming in third of six entries in the men’s junior single. Novice Atticus Schursky placed sixth in the same event. There was no men’s novice single event, so Schursky had to row a level up in the varsity event. Lang and Schursky returned to the racecourse to compete in the men’s junior double event, where they placed f...